SCM102 – Introduction to Aspen Supply Chain Planner

This course provides systematic training in basic Aspen SCM: Supply Chain Planner (SCP) skills for planners. Detailed emphasis is placed on introducing and reviewing features and functions in Aspen Supply Chain Planner such as Data Management, Plan Generation and Analysis, What-If Analysis, and Publishing.

Audience:

  • This course is designed for planners who need to build, update and optimize a plan based on SCP model results; as well as for other stakeholders who would like to better understand how SCP boosts the efficiency of the supply chain planning process.
  • Participants will typically have at least an entry level knowledge about supply chain planning and would like to learn how Aspen SCP can greatly improve and optimize the planning workflow.

Training Details

  • Course Id:

    SCM102

  • Duration:

    2 day(s)

  • CEUs Awarded:

    1.4

  • Level:

    Introductory

Benefits

  • Understand how Supply Chain Planner can help you streamline the planning workflow
  • Learn to perform data import and validation
  • Navigate through the interfaces of the software
  • Acquire knowledge on how to generate an up-to-date, optimized plan which incorporates the latest imported data
  • Analyze the newly generated plan through automatically generated reports
  • Compare the outcome of different scenario alternatives
  • Export and publish the resulting data

Approach

  • Instruction on main topics following the workflow of a Supply Chain Planning process at the planning level
  • Hands-on problem-solving approach allows the student to gain an understanding of the key features of Aspen SCP

Pre-requisites

This course is recommended for planners with some knowledge of Supply Chain Planning, as well as for different stakeholders who may be impacted by this process (for example, Sales and Product Management)

Agenda

Process Overview

  • Recognize issues involved in supply planning
  • Understand the workflow surrounding the Supply Planning process
  • Understand how the Supply Planner can help you with planning issues


Functionality Overview

  • The Supply Planner model
  • Types of data
  • Model formulation, decisions, and objective function
  • Linear Programming (LP) formulation
  • Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation
  • Impact of LP technology on Supply Chain Planning


Data Management

  • Basic UI structure
  • Saved layouts
  • Defining the time horizon
  • Data import
  • Time-effective data
  • The Data Viewer
  • Modifying data in the Data Viewer
  • Production and capacity data
  • Operation details and classes
  • Operating calendar screens


Plan Generation

  • Solution controls
  • Demand controls
  • Inventory, capacity, production and advanced controls
  • Plan generation


Plan Analysis

  • Plan summary reports
  • Distribution flows
  • Marginal supply cost
  • Plan analysis


What-if Analysis

  • Scenario management
  • Scenario map
  • Scenario analysis
  • Scenario comparison
  • Solution overrides


Publishing the Plan

  • Publishing the plan
  • Exporting data

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Aspen Technology, Inc. awards Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for training classes conducted by our organization. One CEU is granted for every 10 hours of class participation.